EMERYVILLE, Calif.– Omicia, Inc., a privately held company offering integrated solutions for interpreting human genome sequences, today announced the appointment of Mike Aicher as Chief Executive Officer and member of the company’s Board of Directors. “Martin and the outstanding Omicia team have built a truly ground-breaking genome interpretation platform with the highest levels of scientific […]

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international pharmaceutical and biotech supplier, has entered into a global sales partnership with Umetrics AB, a Swedish software manufacturer. Umetrics is a highly specialized, leading provider of chemometrics software worldwide for modeling and optimizing biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing processes. The cooperation agreement provides that SSB will assume global marketing […]

Through the new release of the ZEN software, Carl Zeiss is opening up several interfaces for users. They can now adjust parts of the software to their individual applications. The new Open Application Development (OAD) programming environment in ZEN is based on the Python programming language. It enables users to create, test and repeatedly run […]

Malmö, Sweden, — Umetrics announces the release of SIMCA-Q 13, state-of-the-art multivariate building block for original equipment manufacturers. Regardless of whether you want to embed a computational engine into your own software, have access to a multivariate toolbox from within MATLAB®, LabVIEW, Excel or a web page, or simply perform standardized routine multivariate tasks ? […]

Schrödinger, Inc. announced today that it has received an additional investment of $20 million from Bill Gates. “Schrödinger has ambitious plans for expanding their software platform that will make drug discovery significantly more productive and efficient,” said Gates. Dr. Boris Nikolic, a Scientific Advisor to Mr. Gates, will join Schrödinger’s Board of Directors. “The success […]

Basel – Vialis AG, the leading system integrator of laboratory data management systems for chemical and pharmaceutical industries in Central Europe has announced a strategic partnership with iFactory Inc. to deliver real-time scheduling ability to the life sciences laboratory environment. iFactory’s real-time scheduling complements Vialis’ expertise in life sciences process optimization and further strengthens their […]

Basel, Switzerland — Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced its successful contributions to several oncology-related research consortia, including the EU-funded carcinoGENOMICS, Newgeneris, and INCA projects. Genedata Expressionist, the company’s flagship product for molecular profiling applications, was successfully used by these consortia for the analysis […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and SRI International today announced they have signed a licensing agreement to offer laboratory research customers a package that combines Agilent’s latest release of GeneSpring GX, GeneSpring NGS, Mass Profiler Professional and Pathway Architect version 12.5 with SRI International’s complete BioCyc Pathway Database Collection. The integrated package will allow scientists […]

LANCASTER, CA , – Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of consulting services and software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today released preliminary revenues for its first fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2013, ended November 30, 2012 (1QFY13). Ms. Momoko Beran, chief financial officer of Simulations Plus, stated, “In accordance with our policy […]

ChemAxon and Pearson announce the addition of ChemAxon’s JChem, MarvinSketch, and MarvinView as the chemistry tools in many of Pearson MasteringChemistry courses. These tools evaluate chemical logic of submissions, allow students to draw using state-of-the-art industry tools, and view and manipulate chemical structures. Within MasteringChemistry, MarvinSketch allows a student to draw and submit many types […]